Life In A Tenement Square Tab by Flogging Molly Flogging Molly Life in a Tenement Square Intro Am C D G Am C E Verse 1: Am C D G Well I kissed the day, I was on my way Am C E From those cold grey blocks of stone Am C D G For seventeen years of squalor filled tears Am C G Am A time now with innocence lost C G As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom Am E7 Turnin? all hope to despair Am C D G And the only thing left was to flee from the nest Am C G Am That was life in a Tenement Square Interlude: Am C D G Am C G Am Verse 2: Am C D G I remember the song where the rats sang along Am C E And danced for their daily bread Am C D G While the damp washed the walls that were twenty feet tall Am C G Am Not a child in the house was fed C G On the porter filled face of the men left no trace Am E7 Of the coin they had already spent Am C D G While our mothers asked God what was Hell ever for Am C G Am When you lived in a Tenement Square Bridge: G Am Grab what?s left of the coal from the ole cubbyhole G Am These cinders need more to be a fire G Am While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived there before us C G Am Laugh with their guns by their sides C G Am I hear them laugh, with their guns by their sides Verse 3: Am C D G Now politicians they dwell in that forgotten Hell Am C E Our misery?s been turned into news Am C D G Where the fat of the land now hog, hand in hand Am C G Am A crime now of life was ever true C G As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom Am E7 Turnin? all hope to despair Am C D G And the only thing left was to flee from the nest Am C G Am That was life in a Tenement Square
